EDITOR’S NOTE: Once again, I am doing a repost here, largely because this walkoff home run by Willson Contreras came very, very close to me in the left-field bleachers on what was a very, very cold, rainy and long afternoon (four hours, 56 minutes of game time in a 15-inning contest). Lightly edited, here is the BCB recap from that evening.

That, my friends, is about as close as I’m probably ever going to get to a walkoff home run.

Here, have a look at Willson Contreras’ blast [VIDEO].

That’s my friend Matt, standing across the aisle in the light blue jacket. He got his hand on the ball, but couldn’t grab it. It rattled around on the back of the concourse and Mike Bojanowski nearly got it, but he was outrun for it.

We’re all happy anyway, as Contreras’ homer, the third walkoff homer in

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